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" In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small. "

Halsey

Small

City

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Halsey

Musician

Treated

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" My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. "

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Love

Listening

" I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not. "

" I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup. "

" It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. "

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" You can be accessible without catering to an audience. "

" I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible. "

" I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me. "

Halsey

Know

Myself

" So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything. "

" I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands. "

Halsey

Horizon

Also

" I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads. "

" The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. "

" I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that? "

" I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke. "

" I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace. "

" I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic. "

" My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in. "

" I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos. "

" Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular. "

" I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music. "

" The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people. "

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Time

Isolation

" I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that. "

" I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden. "

" I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked. "